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Jersey City, NJ Wedding Photographer & Filmmaker

Coastal estates, historic ballrooms, and four true seasons — Jersey City sets a formal stage and we love it.

Photographing weddings in Jersey City

From harbor light to foliage season, Jersey City weddings carry a classic register — historic venues, formal timelines, family traditions. We know how to run an efficient formals session and still disappear into the candid moments.

Elizabeth Scott is a national studio: senior photographers and filmmakers, travel already included, and a calendar kept deliberately small so every wedding gets a first-team crew. If we haven’t worked your exact venue yet, we scout it before your day — light, timing, logistics — so nothing about Jersey City surprises us on the morning of.

Recent work

Wedding photograph by Elizabeth Scott
Wedding photograph by Elizabeth Scott
Wedding photograph by Elizabeth Scott
Wedding photograph by Elizabeth Scott

Selected frames from the Elizabeth Scott portfolio. Ask and we will send full galleries from weddings closest in size and setting to yours.

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The light in Jersey City

Ceremony time decides how your photographs look, and the answer is different in Jersey City than it is three states over. In June the sun sets here at 8:29 PM and golden hour opens around 7:47 PM; by October sunset has slid back to 6:16 PM — a swing of 2 hours 13 minutes across one wedding season. Start a Jersey City ceremony at roughly the times below and you will finish vows, family formals, and portraits with the good light still in front of you rather than behind you.

2027 Start ceremony Golden hour Sunset Daylight
May5:21 PM7:27 PM8:06 PM14.5 h
June5:44 PM7:47 PM8:29 PM15.1 h
July5:41 PM7:45 PM8:26 PM14.8 h
August5:09 PM7:16 PM7:54 PM13.8 h
September4:20 PM6:29 PM7:05 PM12.5 h
October3:31 PM5:38 PM6:16 PM11.1 h

Times computed for Jersey City (New York) on the 15th of each month. An outdoor ceremony in open shade can run 20–30 minutes later than the figures above; a church or ballroom ceremony is unaffected.

Where couples marry in Jersey City

These are the Jersey City venues couples ask us about most. We have not shot every one of them — nobody has — so when a venue is new to us we scout it before your date: light through the ceremony hour, where formals hold up, how long the walk from getting-ready to first look actually takes.

White Eagle Hall4.7 ★ · 1302 reviews
Liberty House Wedding & Event Venue4.5 ★ · 2384 reviews
Maritime Parc4.5 ★ · 548 reviews
Battello - Italian Restaurant / Wedding & Events Venue4.5 ★ · 2386 reviews
Waterside Events4.2 ★ · 1567 reviews
Hudson House Wedding & Event Venue4.7 ★ · 357 reviews

Venue list is informational; Elizabeth Scott is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or booking on behalf of any venue named above.

Photography

Timeless, true-to-color imagery — several hundred edited photos per wedding.

Films

Story-first edits built from your real audio — vows, letters, laughter.

Combined

One team for both — the best value and the smoothest timeline.

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